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by frig 17y ago
Pot, kettle, etc. A short reply so as not to strain your reading comprehension: I've asked you to explain why you hold your premises and you haven't; you just continue reiterating that you hold them, and then point out that if I also held y
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by frig 17y ago
Not this: You are arguing that the obligation to releave the hardships of the poor falls narrowly, landing on the shoulders of those who provide the goods to the poor. Your argument would show that if a cripple is unable to afford a wheel
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by frig 17y ago
You are increasingly nonsensical; it's also true that if wishes were ponies than beggars would ride, but what of it? I don't feel entitled to Joe's knowledge; in the hypothetical scenario I already have Joe's knowledge, at which point wh
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by frig 17y ago
More to the point (for the peanut gallery): I'll use anamax's verbiage throughout, despite the general silliness of his rhetorical framing. Firstly: the notion that there's something absurd in my being able to profit from work some pharma r
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by frig 17y ago
LOL we will not agree; if your internal theories don't allow for making different decisions at different times we don't have much to talk about.
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by frig 17y ago
It is a little weak sticking with the individuals. But look at Bob's incentives: If you're Bob -- the duly-elected representative of the people's republic of west brokistan -- then you've got the following calculation: - either you let Jim
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by frig 17y ago
Quite, but if I have a lab and the resources to keep myself alive and decide to cook up some off-brand S to keep myself alive that's quite different from an "entitlement" in the sense you're thinking of.
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by frig 17y ago
Keep in mind that I'm specifically addressing the situation in which Joe and I fail to come to an agreement (there's a line in there about that); much of what you're saying is more about the process leading up to (failure to reach) an agree
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by frig 17y ago
This is a seriously specious line of reasoning. Your example is both inaccurate in critical details: - you require me to coerce Joe into coming to touch me - I only require Joe not prevent me from using my own pharma lab and my own materi
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by frig 17y ago
The moral calculus here is so obvious you have to have your head screwed-on sideways not to see it. Let's reduce it to the level of individual decisions. I have a terminal disease. "Pharma Joe" invented a recipe for substance S that will cu
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by frig 17y ago
The cost-shifting argument is curious. The simplified version of it runs: - medicare (etc) say: 'this is what we reimburse for this procedure', non-negotiable - providers that take medicare charge the private sector more than the price medi
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by frig 17y ago
Your individual responses are not vehement; however, last time I looked you had > half the responses in this thread (needless to say all taking the same "side"), which suggests that for whatever reason this is an issue you have strong f
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by frig 17y ago
All I can say is LOL to you. But seriously, may I ask you why you seem convinced that the rate of technological progress has slowed? Whence the vehement defense of the thesis? The example of the cars is so completely bogus that it ought to
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by frig 17y ago
How are you finding Feller? I've been through Shiryaev and have very mixed feelings on that one.
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by frig 17y ago
No offense but if you're not currently implementing this the way the guy suggested you can make the product a ton better if you take his suggestion (I'm guessing you yourself aren't a power user, again no offense intended). It sounds like w
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by frig 17y ago
It isn't just the paranoia. How do you interpret this: I was kind of hoping I could hand the blog over to someone else, who could release their indentity and really not worry about it. Plus, it would get some pressure off of me. ...want t
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by frig 17y ago
I just tried to post this. Too bad it never went anywhere; it is the best article on this I've seen.
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by frig 17y ago
Welcome to the modern condition; this will only get worse for the foreseeable future. The easiest heuristic is always to first ask qui bono , and then heavily discount information whose content if true would advance the interests of the in
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by frig 17y ago
Incidentally I find Patri's stuff much better than David's (if this is any indication). Seasteading is far-out but Patri seems self-aware of that and has the wisdom to take an "I don't have all the answers yet" attitude where warranted. Fro
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by frig 17y ago
That's my honest mistake; I'm aware of the Friedman family but clearly I wasn't aware of the two of them. Not editing so as to leave evidence of ignorance intact.
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by frig 17y ago
This stuff often feels like electric buggywhips for horseless automobiles, or early-80s thinkpieces on virtual reality that seriously proposed "online shopping", when it came, would consist of slipping on vr goggles and literally walking th
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by frig 17y ago
And in fact I'm ignorant a bit: http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/_pdf/PostalSavingsSystem.p... ...we had this but it got phased out in the 60s. Who knew?
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by frig 17y ago
I do something like this manually in my personal life. It works good for memberships or online shopping; you have something like amazon.orders@your.domain, zappos.orders@your.domain, etc. In real life not so much: people know they're gettin
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah we live in interesting times in which the historical role of banks and what banks actually are used for are diverging. There's two kinds of things here (and I'd lump them separately): (1) there's "putting money in vaults" and handling
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by frig 17y ago
Thank you for the informed response. I think you meant this link: http://www.machinelearning.org/proceedings/icml2005/papers/0... ...reading now.
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by frig 17y ago
There's an easily understandable intuitive understanding of the 1st eigenvector (for the eigenvalue == 1) of the pagerank matrix (loosely speaking: assuming you browse a-la the pagerank matrix, the ith component of the (unit) eigenvector fo
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by frig 17y ago
FL is cute. If you want to try it out this is a fun tool: http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/~paoluzzi/plasm/ It's a dialect of FL with stuff tossed in for programmatically generating 3d models. I'm not aware of any other easily accessible workin
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by frig 17y ago
Ah for actual descriptions. "Colored personalities": within a few seconds of meeting someone in person I have a very strong colored visual image associated with them; this is mostly consistent (subsequent meetings with the same person will
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by frig 17y ago
I wouldn't have called these synaesthesia: Colored personalities Colored tastes Colored pain Colored odors Colored temperature but (of the list at the bottom) those five are all things I've arguably experienced; that said it's hard to know
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by frig 17y ago
Sounds like subscription-only reddit wherein some algo flags trends and topics of interest for which the staff writer(s) then crank out quickly-researched / fact-checked summaries (possibly also scanning other aggregators / twitter / etc fo

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